{"id":6411,"date":"2012-12-28T06:32:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T11:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ict-pulse.com\/?p=6411"},"modified":"2012-12-28T06:35:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T11:35:31","slug":"predictions-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/2012\/12\/predictions-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"How well did we do with our predictions for 2012?"},"content":{"rendered":"
We are reviewing our predictions of what we believed might have been some of the big tech\/ICT stories of 2012<\/i>.<\/i><\/p>\n
In our first post for 2012, we highlighted what we believe might be important issues during the year: see 10 topics that will be in the news in 2012<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. Here, we review those predictions to see how well we fared.<\/p>\n The year coming to a close was a big year for cybercrime and cybersecurity. A number of organisations both internationally and in the Caribbean were reported in the news as having experienced unauthorised intrusions, which in some instances resulted in the theft of information. In the region, we also had a number of cases of ATM fraud, along with lottery and advanced payment scams, which began to highlight the breadth and depth of the threats to which victims are being subject.<\/p>\n In late 2011, we highlighted the draft Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)<\/i><\/b><\/a>, which Had been introduced in the United States House of Representatives. Although it was rejected early this year, other pieces of legislation, such as the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act<\/i>, more commonly referred to as the PROTECT IP Act <\/i><\/b><\/a>and the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Act (ACTA)<\/i><\/b><\/a>, reinforced the fact that online Intellectual Property Rights was still high on developed countries\u2019, especially the United States\u2019, agenda.<\/p>\n1.\u00a0 Cyber crime and security<\/b><\/h3>\n
2.\u00a0 Online piracy<\/b><\/h3>\n